enceinte

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Carrying an unborn child; pregnant.

n. An encircling fortification around a fort, castle, or town.

n. A structure or an area protected by an encircling fortification.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Pregnant.

n. An enclosure.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; -- called also body of the place.

n. The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification.

adj. Pregnant; with child.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In fortification, an inclosure; the wall or rampart which surrounds a place, often composed of bastions or towers and curtains. The enceinte with the space inclosed within it is called the body of the place.

The enceinte is the normal Arab "snake-fence" of dry and barked branches, which imperfectly defends the nurseries of young trees and the plots of Khubbayzah ( "edible mallows") from the adjoining camping-place of bald yellow clay.

The first named on the south side of the river formed part of the ancient "enceinte" of the first château of Philip of Alsace, and was erected in the twelfth century, and famed with the château of Lille, as the most formidable strongholds of Flanders.